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Page 75
REST , SAD EYES Weep you no more , sad fountains ; What need you flow so fast ? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven's sun doth gently waste ! But my sun's heavenly eyes , View not your weeping , That now lies sleeping Softly ...
REST , SAD EYES Weep you no more , sad fountains ; What need you flow so fast ? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven's sun doth gently waste ! But my sun's heavenly eyes , View not your weeping , That now lies sleeping Softly ...
Page 186
So strength first made a way , Then beauty flowed , then wisdom , honour , pleasure : When almost all was out , God made a stay , Perceiving that , alone of all his treasure , Rest in the bottom lay . For if I should ( said he ) Bestow ...
So strength first made a way , Then beauty flowed , then wisdom , honour , pleasure : When almost all was out , God made a stay , Perceiving that , alone of all his treasure , Rest in the bottom lay . For if I should ( said he ) Bestow ...
Page 436
Oh , for the day when I shall rest , And never suffer more ! LAST LINES No coward soul is mine , No trembler in the world's storm - troubled sphere : I see Heaven's glories shine , And faith shines equal , arming me from fear .
Oh , for the day when I shall rest , And never suffer more ! LAST LINES No coward soul is mine , No trembler in the world's storm - troubled sphere : I see Heaven's glories shine , And faith shines equal , arming me from fear .
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| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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